Biography

Jeffrey Lent

Jeffrey Lent was born in Vermont and grew up there and in western New York State, on dairy farms. He studied literature and psychology at Franconia College in New Hampshire and SUNY Purchase. His first novel, IN THE FALL, was a national bestseller and a New York Times Book Review Notable Book for 2000. Lent lives with his wife and two daughters in central Vermont.

Jeffrey Lent

Books by Jeffrey Lent

At the close of the Civil War, weary veteran Malcolm Hopeton returns to his home in western New York State to find his wife and hired man missing and his farm in disrepair. A double murder ensues, the repercussions of which ripple through a community with spiritual roots in the Second Great Awakening. Hopeton has gone from the horrors of war to those far worse, and arrayed around him are a host of other people struggling to make sense of his crime.